5/6/2020: NASA funds proposal to build telescope on far side of moon - Pandemic Consumer Spending

Today's Article: NASA funds proposal to build telescope on far side of moon
From: Space.com
Readability Score: 14.3

A robotics technologist has proposed a huge telescope on the dark side of the moon. NASA is interested enough to fund further study. Learn more about the proposal, and discuss its merits, in today's lesson. Then check out Everyone's Space for more on space technology.

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Readability Score: 8.0

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12/5/2019: NASA Renames Object After Uproar Over Old Name’s Nazi Connotations - Huge space hotel promises fake gravity and ‘supersized basketball’

Today's Article: NASA Renames Object After Uproar Over Old Name’s Nazi Connotations

From: New York Times

Readability Score: 11.8

Ultima Thule-- the word literally means 'a place beyond the known world,' and with that in mind NASA scientists gave it as a temporary name to an oddly-shaped space object recently discovered. The term was also used by Nazis, however, and for many, that was a reason that it had to go. Learn more about the controversy in today's article.

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Readability Score: 10.4

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11/27/2018: NASA's Mars InSight to land Nov 26 - Does the punishment fit the crime? Supreme Court takes on ‘civil forfeiture’ case involving a $42,000 Land Rover

Today's Article: NASA's Mars InSight to land Nov 26
From: BBC
Readability Score: 9.6

NASA will attempt to put another robotic probe, InSight, on Mars this week. It carries a suite of instruments - many of them from Europe - to try to determine the rocky world's internal structure.

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Today's Alternate Article: Does the punishment fit the crime? Supreme Court takes on ‘civil forfeiture’ case involving a $42,000 Land Rover
Readability Score: 7.9

Today's Alternate Article: I Need a Vacation!
Readability Score: 9.3

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3/20/2018: Astronaut's DNA no longer matches that of his identical twin, NASA finds - Gainesville, Hall students hold walkouts encouraging solutions to gun violence

Today's Article: Astronaut's DNA no longer matches that of his identical twin, NASA finds
From: CNN
Readability Score: 13.8

We knew going to space was stressful on both body and mind. A new study shows that more then that it may alter the very DNA of those who go into space. What might this mean for the future of space travel?

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Readability Score: 9.9

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2/23/2017: Cosmetology Student Under Investigation for Giving Free Haircuts - Space Poop Problem-Solvers Take Home Cash Prizes From NASA

Today's Article: Cosmetology Student Under Investigation for Giving Free Haircuts
From: Tucson News Now
Readability Score: 10.3

Montes de Oca thought he was doing a good deed for Tucson by offering the haircuts, a service many homeless hadn’t received in a long time.

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Readability Score: 9.8

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11/6/2015: How Yelp Plans to Clean Up the Restaurant Industry - Two Degrees, Flies Planes, Author, Works at NASA, Age 17

Today's Article: How Yelp Plans to Clean Up the Restaurant Industry (11.6)
From: Washington Post

Yelp...quietly began running an experiment in San Francisco over the past week.

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Today's Alternate Article: Two Degrees, Flies Planes, Author, Works at NASA, Age 17 (8.7)

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